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NIKHAT ZAREEN-HIJAB & ‘LIBERALS’ Sometime in 2018, there was this film, ‘Secret Super Star’, which has done well at the box office for its off-beat content. It is a story of a family- father, mother and daughter. Being conservative, the father was very strict with the growing daughter. Insia, the daughter, dreams of being a singer. Father Farooq Malik, says ‘No’. But passionate Insia secretly pursues her ambition. She gives herself another name. Her mother Najma Malik nurses the desire of her dear daughter secretly without the knowledge of her husband. Life goes on. One day father of the girl gets a job in Saudi Arabia and family plans to shift to Saudi. In the airport, the luggage of the family was such that it was beyond permissible weight. What can be left behind was the worry of the father and he finds the guitar of his daughter packed among other things. In anger he rips it apart and throws it. Outraged at the action of her husband, Najma, the mother of the ‘Secret Super Star’...

TELANGANA: NIKHAT ZAREEN GOES ON TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION. WHEN MUSLIMS GIRLS STUCK IN HIJAB All of 25, the girl from Telangana, Nikhat Zareen, was an unlikely boxing heroin on the podium at an Istanbul sports facility in Turkey. She won her gold medal in the 52kg category, being only the 5th Indian woman to win medal at international boxing events. The girl from the tiny Mohalla of Vinayak Nagar in Nizamabad district in Telangana emphatically carved a niche for herself. Coming from a conservative family, it was a huge personal achievement for young Nikhat. She made an indelible statement of having arrived on the global scene of boxing, especially when there are these college students stuck in Hijab controversy. Recent report on Hijab in Karnataka College informs about a dozen or so girls makings rounds of District collectors office and other officials to influence the decision of colleges not to allow Hijab clad girls from sitting in the class. These girls, supported by their fathers,...